‘Rosacee—Rosa. 169 
The Chinese R. anemoneflira might be placed next, as it 
resembles the foregoing in habit, but still it is better located 
in the following section. 
R. moschata, the Musk Rose, originally from Northern 
Africa, but now naturalised in Spain and about Roussillon. 
An erect much branched free-flowering shrub from 5 to 10 
feet high, armed with hooked almost equal spines. Leaves of 
5 to 7 ovate-lanceolate dentate leaffets, smooth and dull green 
above, glaucous below, with the midrib hairy. The ftowers are 
generally in clusters of about seven, white, and very fragrant. 
Calyx-leaves deciduous, dropping soon after the fall of the 
petals. The fruit is small, obovoid, and red when ripe. This 
_ Rose has been cultivated from time immemorial in the countries 
bordering the Mediterranean Sea inhabited by Mussulman 
tribes, where it furnishes the bulk of the essence of Roses em- 
ployed in the local perfumery. In our gardens it blooms late 
(August or September), and it has produced several semi-double 
varieties; among others the old Double Musk Rose, pure 
white; and Comtesse de Plater, white tinged with yellow. It 
is also supposed to have contributed pollen towards the pro- 
duction of some other hybrids, the Noisette for example, which 
we have already alluded to. 
R. setigera, syn. R. rubifolia, the progenitor of the Prairie 
Roses of English gardens, from North America. This should 
not to be confounded with R. multiflora. A shrub 3 to 
5 feet high, easily recognised by its short prickles, leaves of’ 
3 to 5 ovate acute dentate leaflets, and its solitary or slightly 
clustered pale rose flowers about the size of those of the common 
Bramble. The fruit is globular, about the size of a pea, 
smooth and glabrous. This very distinct species differs notably 
in habit from all others of this section, but on account of the 
confluence of its styles it cannot be removed from them in a 
classification. It has given birth to some garden varieties not 
without interest, such as Queen of the Prairies, Belle de Balti- 
more, Miss Edgeworth, Purpurea, Séraphine, Washington's 
Bride, ete., mostly semi-double or double, some white or flesh, 
and others bright rose. 
X. Ros# Banxstinz, or Banksian Roses.—Usually climbing 
shrubs whose leaves have mostly no more than 8 to 5 leaflets. 
Their principal botanical character is in the stipules, which are 
_. almost free, narrow, acute, and nearly always deciduous. The 
styles are sometimes free and sometimes united. The species 
